The Thing Around Your Neck

Andrew Altschul bio ↓  ·  July 10th, 2009  ·  filed under books

In her new short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie moves back and forth between two continents the way she has in real life. Adichie depicts contemporary middle class Nigeria, as well as the lives of Nigerian women newly arrived in the United States—wives, girlfriends of Americans, au pairs—adjusting to a new country.

Listen to an interview with Adichie, by Zoë Pollock of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer‘s blog, Art Beat.

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Andrew Altschul is the Books Editor of The Rumpus. He is the author of the novels Deus Ex Machina and Lady Lazarus. His fiction and essays have appeared in many journals and magazines, and in anthologies including Best New American Voices and O. Henry Prize Stories. He lives in San Francisco. More from this author →

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